Cusco - Hidroeléctrica - Aguas Caliente

So on Friday we set off early in the morning via bus (7 hours) to get the the small tourist town of Aguas Caliente, which is purely there for tourists, for the surrounding village of Machu Picchu! On our long bus ride we stopped for a buffet lunch which was very nice, before reaching the high altitude of nearly 5,000 feet through a scenic mountain drive to get to Hidroeléctrica. Once we arrived at hidroeléctrica we took a 2.5hrs flat walk along the hidroeléctrica train line through the jungle, surrounded by the mountains where Machu Picchu lies, and arrived at Aguas Caliente with just enough time to get shown to our hostel and showered (cold 😂😅 as they don't really have the infrastructure for good water pressure 😭). We meet our group for dinner around 8pm and got all the tickets and info we needed for the climb to Machu Picchu the day after. We meet alot of nationalities in our group which was nice but oldly we got separated into Spanish speaking and English speaking later on! 😂 We thought this would just be to tell us about the trip details, but ended up being for dinner too... Two separate tables.... One British /Americans and the other made up of Spanish speakers only 🙄😮😢 strange times lol. Oh well still didn't stop us from talking to everyone 😂Read more